Wednesday, January 31, 2001
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Wednesday, January 31, 2001 |
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Fayettevillle boards shifting around By MONROE
ROARK
Fayetteville's Downtown Development Authority and Main Street program are getting a bit of an overhaul. While city officials sort through a stack of applications for the vacant Main Street program manager position, a reorganization of the boards of both bodies is scheduled for consideration at Thursday night's City Council meeting. Several recommendations were made as a result of the Main Street board of directors' retreat in October, and further discussion took place at the City Council retreat a month later. Under the proposed new structure, the board will decrease in size from 11 members to seven, with four standing committees Organization, Promotions, Design and Economic Restructuring. The chairmen of the DDA and Historic Preservation Committee would fill two of the board positions and head the Economic Restructuring and Design committees, respectively. All members of the Main Street board will be appointed to new staggered terms effective Feb. 1, the date of this week's City Council meeting. This will also require some new appointments and reappointments to the DDA board. Suggested terms for Main Street board members are Gary Baumgardner, two years; Lane Brown, three years; Nancy Price, three years; Patsy Gullett, four years; and Robert Sprayberry, four years. All of these terms would begin Feb. 1. In addition to the five listed above, the DDA chairman currently Al Hovey-King and the Historic Preservation Committee chairman Addison Lester would fill two spots with indefinite terms, depending upon their service on the other boards. Under the proposed new DDA board structure, three members would fall off in the middle of unexpired terms: Sprayberry, Patsy Gullett and Gary McGaha. Their recommended replacements Herbie Youngs, Mike Faulkner and Ron Hanah would require appointment next week, along with Sarah Murphy, whose term is expiring and is recommended for reappointment. Sam Burch and Jamie Wyatt remain in the middle of their six-year terms. With Sprayberry leaving the DDA board, Hovey-King would be the only member on both boards. This would accomplish one of the stated goals of shrinking the Main Street board, according to city staff, which was elminating some redundancy by having several people serving on both. Meanwhile, about 50 applicants have expressed an interest in the Main Street director position vacated by Shellie Reed, who resigned in December. Interviews should begin sometime this week, City Clerk Judy Stephens said Monday. The next big event scheduled for the Main Street program is the Courthouse Art Show in May.
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